Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

An investment trust specialised in investing in commercial property such as parking garages or GP offices.

An investment trust specialised in investing in commercial property such as parking garages or GP offices.

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Bed & ISA

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Ponzi Scheme

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.
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Synthetic ETFs

An ETF that that reproduces the return of an index through the use of swaps.
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Value Investing

The art of buying shares which trade below their value, according to the analysis of the value investor.
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NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.
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index-linked gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is as opposed to a conventional gilt, where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms.
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OEIC

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.
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Zero-Sum Game

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